The Legal Program handles cases that involve infringements upon constitutional rights and civil liberties. We represent individuals or classes of individuals whose cases will either serve to create new precedent or will result in general system-wide reform in favor of protecting and defending civil liberties.
In other situations, we may not file a lawsuit, but may write letters calling for changes or reforms.
The ACLU has filed an amicus brief on behalf of Anthony St. Dennis because he did not receive fair and adequate representation during his trial for the murder of Forest Salcido, a homeless man in Missoula...
Robert Baxter and several other mentally competent, terminally ill patients, as well as a group of physicians, filed a complaint in October 2007 claiming that the patients’ rights of privacy, human dignity...
The ACLU, along with co-operating attorney Andree Larose of the Helena firm, Reynolds, Motl and Sherwood, filed a complaint against the state of Montana and the Montana Department of Corrections in December...
Bethany Cajune was about five months pregnant when she was incarcerated in the Lake County Jail for traffic violations. She had been undergoing treatment for addiction to painkillers, but the jailers denied...
